Nippon Kobo Vol.2 – Ma (間): The Space Between All Things
Nov
2
4:00 PM16:00

Nippon Kobo Vol.2 – Ma (間): The Space Between All Things

Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Creative director Haruka Fujii, percussionist and composer, looks forward to welcoming you at the Gray Area Grand Theater for Nippon Kobo Vol. 2. This season-opening event will showcase a chamber music program by Japanese composers, real-time calligraphy performance by Aoi Yamaguchi, and a special talk by Miryam Sas (Professor of Comparative Literature and Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley). The program spotlights the world premiere performance of a new work by Hiroya Miura for chamber ensemble and calligrapher. Along with leading Japanese artists, local musicians, creators, and entrepreneurs, we look forward to sharing the Japanese aesthetic of Ma.

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SFCM Percussion Ensemble Concert Co-directed with Jake Nissly
Nov
11
7:30 PM19:30

SFCM Percussion Ensemble Concert Co-directed with Jake Nissly

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Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM

This SFCM program is curated and co-directed by percussion faculty Jacob Nissly and Haruka Fujii. Percussion Ensembles Recitals showcase performance departments through its students. Featuring various students and repertoire, and curated by the faculty, performances in this recital highlight SFCM programs and the wide range of study.

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San Francisco Contemporary Music Players – American Reflections: Fire - and Lightening
Jan
31
8:00 PM20:00

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players – American Reflections: Fire - and Lightening

Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Haruka joins the SFCMP in presenting American Reflections: Fire - and Lightening. Feel the heat rise from music that sparks, crackles, and shines with brilliance.

Viet Cuong — Electric Aroma
Lightning-fast harmonic shifts leap from one tonal center to another in dazzling progression.

Elizabeth Ogonek — Lightenings
Inspired by Seamus Heaney’s poetry, this radiant work reflects on childhood, nature, and metaphysical wonder, drawing on the ancient hymn Phos Hilaron.

Chen Yi — Fire (West Coast Premiere)
Elemental and human forces collide in this work of tension, transformation, and release.

Justin Weiss — through depths and shadows (West Coast Premiere)
A musical journey into Jackson Pollock’s The Deep, peeling back layers of sound and meaning in continual exploration.

Elliott Carter — Mosaic (West Coast Premiere)
A fiery tribute to harpist Carlos Salzedo, whose virtuosity reshaped the harp’s voice for a new century, performed by harpist Amy Ahn.

Fire—and Lightening ignites the stage with elemental power, radiant poetry, and electrifying virtuosity.

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Silkroad Sanctuary Tour 2026
Mar
15
to Mar 28

Silkroad Sanctuary Tour 2026

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March 15, 2026
Harris Theater • Chicago, IL

March 19, 2026
Zellerbach Hall • Berkeley, CA

March 20, 2026
Zellerbach Hall • Berkeley, CA

March 28, 2026
McCarter Theatre Center • Princeton, NJ

The Silkroad Ensemble’s latest flagship program with Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens is Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual. In this program, Rhiannon and the Ensemble explore how we can experience music to better understand our world, find comfort, process loss and a changing environment, and rebuild community based on our own humanity. Historically, when we have found ourselves in a time of conflict or stress, we have always turned to music—for example, many of us held on to our sanity during the long months of the pandemic with songs, sounds, and stories.

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World Premiere of Vivian Fung’s New Work
Apr
17
7:30 PM19:30

World Premiere of Vivian Fung’s New Work

Friday, April 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Haruka performs a new work (title TBD) for found-object percussion and bass flute by Chinese-Canadian composer Vivian Fung.

WOMEN CROSSING/ LIMINALITY
The culmination of E4TT's two-year exploration of women's immigration and identity and our sixth collaboration with the SF Conservatory of Music Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Department.

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Sam Adams’s Sundial at Other Mind Festival – Night 2
Oct
17
7:00 PM19:00

Sam Adams’s Sundial at Other Mind Festival – Night 2

Friday, October 17, 2025
Panel at 7:00 PM, Concert at 8:00 PM

A panoply of composers will assemble for the 29th Other Minds Festival in San Francisco, an international annual showcase for composers held at the Brava Theater Thursday–Sunday, October 16–19, 2025. Join us for multi-generational musical connections, multimedia masterpieces, and contrasting takes on the fusion of gamelan and American musical traditions.

Composer Samuel Adams will present a set of solo and chamber pieces performed by Friction Quartet, violinist Helen Kim, percussionist Haruka Fujii, and pianists Conor Hanick and Sarah Cahill. Adams’ piece commissioned by Cahill, which will receive its world premiere, is a tribute to his mentor Ingram Marshall (1942–2022), who is also represented on the program with a performance of Dark Waters for English horn by Libby Van Cleve.

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Masterclass with Jaron Lanier at Kuumbwa Jazz Center – Music & The Future of Humanity
Oct
7
7:00 PM19:00

Masterclass with Jaron Lanier at Kuumbwa Jazz Center – Music & The Future of Humanity

Haruka joins Jaron Lanier—a musician, computer scientist, visual artist, writer, technologist, and futurist who is considered a founder of the field of virtual reality in Music & The Future of Humanity along with the Free Waves trio, Tim Jackson and Zack Olsen, singer/songwriter Harper Simon, and members of the Santa Cruz Symphony.

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Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar 2025
Jul
10
to Jul 19

Juilliard Summer Percussion Seminar 2025

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Juilliard Summer Music's percussion program offers a two-week intensive for percussionists in high school led by a faculty of world-renowned instructors, including Juilliard faculty members and visiting guest faculty. Participants will live, study, and perform at Juilliard, located at Lincoln Center in the heart of New York City. Juilliard Summer Music will expose musicians to the many skills, careers, and passions represented at the school and prepare them for success in college auditions and beyond.

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Haruka joins Soundweavings at BANFF as the Program Director
Apr
28
to May 9

Haruka joins Soundweavings at BANFF as the Program Director

This two-week residency offers musicians and ensembles from diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds dedicated space and time to focus on their craft. Embracing music from all traditions and breaking boundaries, the program encourages connections between musicians using both traditional world instruments and Western instruments and voice. 

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Uplifted Voices by Silkroad Ensemble 2025 Tour
Mar
28
to Apr 6

Uplifted Voices by Silkroad Ensemble 2025 Tour

Grammy Award-winning musical ensemble Silkroad’s Uplifted Voices brings together a stellar lineup of performer-composers from the Silkroad Ensemble in a series of pieces that highlight each artist’s musical storytelling. These compositions, often inspired by their homeland, ancestors, community and family, represent previously under-recognized voices from around the world, offering a fresh perspective on the history and migration of music.

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World premiere of Tell es-Sakan by Davide Vellota
Mar
15
8:00 PM20:00

World premiere of Tell es-Sakan by Davide Vellota

“Strident, strange and often violent but also full of exuberance and joy, “Tell es-Sakan” (Hill of Ash) is a protest, pacifist, concert-length piece for string quartet and percussion. Intended as a ballet, motivated by the current war in Gaza, and named after the oldest known settlement in the area, it follows on one side a couple that meets, falls in love, vows trust to each other, and on the other the War Machine, an ominous presence that eventually takes over in a fury of destruction. The piece comes from a place of sorrow and yearning for a better human future.”
–Davide Verotta

Played by the Friction String Quartet, and Haruka Fujii and Anne Szabla, percussion.

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San Francisco Contemporary Players
Nov
17
4:00 PM16:00

San Francisco Contemporary Players

Sunday November 24th, 2024 at Brava Theater, San Francisco

Haruka joins SFCMP program with music that harnesses the power of the female voice. A world premiere by up-and-coming composer Emma Logan, West Coast premieres by Laura Schwendinger and Augusta Read Thomas, and music from San Francisco’s Mary Kouyoumdijian showcase these sonic narratives about women, by women.

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American Railroad by Silkroad Ensemble, album release
Nov
15
4:30 PM16:30

American Railroad by Silkroad Ensemble, album release

November 15th 2024

“American Railroad” The album is out Nov. 15 on Nonesuch Records and the single “Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel-Driving Man” is out now.

The album is the culmination of four years of research, collaboration, and music-making, having brought Silkroad artists all across the United States to uncover and uplift the stories of those who built the transcontinental railroad and connecting railways across North America. My composition, Tamping Song is a song to celebrate the contribution of Japanese immigrant railroad workers.

“Swannanoa Tunnel / Steel-Driving Man” is a tribute to the ghosts of the hard working men who gave their lives building the Swannanoa Tunnel in North Carolina, whose stories have been forgotten and words claimed not as their own. It ends with a version of the popular traditional tune “John Henry” or “Steel-Driving Man,” about the folk hero John Henry, who beat the steam drill with his hammer, only to die of a burst heart. 

Also, please support the people who have recently lost everything in Swannanoa, NC in Hurricane Helene - here are places to give:

Appalachia Funders Network https://www.appalachiafunders.org/

World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/search/tag/north-carolina

Operation Airdrop (Concord, NC) https://www.operation-airdrop.com/hurricane-helene

Beloved Asheville (Asheville, NC) https://belovedasheville.com/get-involved

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Fujii Percussion with Soundstreams
Oct
24
7:30 PM19:30

Fujii Percussion with Soundstreams

October 24th, 2024 7:30pm Toronto, Canada

The Fujiis are back in Toronto after 10years, for the reprise of Letters to God by Akira Miyoshi, and works by luminary composers of Japan and Canada, along with dear friends, Soundstreams Choir 21, The Canadian Children’s Opera Company , Gregory Oh, piano and Ryan Scott, percussion.

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Nippon Kobo Vol.1 -Seasons-
Sep
15
4:00 PM16:00

Nippon Kobo Vol.1 -Seasons-

Join Nippon Kobo’s launch event, Nippon Kobo Vol.1 ~ Seasons ~, in Fall 2024 at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture. For Nippon Kobo’s inaugural event, all are invited to experience the Japanese concept of Seasons through a collaborative showcase of premium craft beer tasting, multimedia art installations, and a chamber music concert by award-winning musicians and artists for an immersive experience in contemporary Japanese music and culture.

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MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS with Alarm Will Sound
Apr
13
8:00 PM20:00

MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS with Alarm Will Sound

Haruka joins AWS for an evening of music by “our greatest living composer,” Steve Reich. The program celebrates the 50th anniversary of Music for 18 Musicians, perhaps the most influential minimalist work of all time and also includes Clapping Music, Vermont Counterpoint, and Radio Rewrite.

April 13th, 2024 @8pm

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD

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Kinan Azmeh, Haruka Fujii & Karen Ouzounian
Jan
14
4:00 PM16:00

Kinan Azmeh, Haruka Fujii & Karen Ouzounian

A triologue by Kinan Azmeh on clarinet, Haruka Fujii on percussion and Karen Ouzounian on cello, Noe Music presents a musical gathering of three likeminded composer-performers who are inspired by a multitude of traditions without being limited by any of them. This powerhouse trio of members of the Silkroad Ensemble will present a musical conversation through the exchange of melody, rhythm, and stories from all their cultural backgrounds — Syria, Japan, Armenia and beyond — in musical genres ranging from folk song, improvisation and original composition to contemporary classical music.

Jan 14, 2024 Sun @4pm

Noe Valley Ministry1021 Sanchez StreetSan Francisco, CA, 94114United States (map)

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Improvisation Trio with Jaron Lanier and William Winant
Dec
10
4:00 PM16:00

Improvisation Trio with Jaron Lanier and William Winant

Joining an one-off trio with the two iconic artists of the Bay Area, Jaron Lanier - an American computer scientist, visual artist, computer philosophy writer, technologist, futurist, and composer of contemporary classical music - and the legendary percussionist William Winant.

Dec 10 Sun @ 3pm

Miwok gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA

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American Railroad: Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens
Nov
5
to Nov 18

American Railroad: Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens

Silkroad’s newest initiative, American Railroad, illuminates the impact of African American, Chinese, Indigenous, Irish, and other immigrant communities on the creation of the US Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways in North America. Exploring the dissemination of cultures across the United States, the railroad was to North America what the Silk Road was to China, the Far East and Europe.

NOV 5, 2023

George Mason University Center for the Arts Concert Hall, Fairfax, VA TICKETS

NOV 9, 2023

The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA, TICKETS

NOV 10, 2023

Balboa Theater, San Diego, CA, TICKETS

NOV 11, 2023

Soka Performing Arts Center, Aliso Viejo, CA, TICKETS

NOV 12, 2023

The Soraya at CSUN, Northridge, CA, TICKETS

NOV 15, 2023

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA, TICKETS

NOV 16, 2023

Robert & Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis, Davis, CA, TICKETS

NOV 17, 2023

Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA, TICKETS

NOV 18, 2023

Green Music Center, Rohnert Park, CA, TICKETS

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